Fitzdog Radio - Ben Gleib on Launching YouTube’s First Late Night Show | Greg Fitzsimmons

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

Subscribe to Greg Fitzsimmons: https://bit.ly/subGregFitz Greg sits down with comedian and host Ben Gleib to talk about launching Good Night with Ben Gleib, a new late night show built for YouTube, complete with a virtual audience, house-party energy, big-name guests, and a studio inside Ben’s home. They also get into Chelsea Handler stories, late night comedy, John Oliver, dating, Ben’s wild Hollywood party memories, and the chaos of trying to run a full production out of your own house. Ben’s show, Good Night with Ben Gleib, was announced as one of YouTube’s first digitally native late-night talk shows. This show is produced by Gotham Production Studios and part of the Gotham Network. https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com/studios/ Follow Greg Fitzsimmons: Facebook: https://facebook.com/FitzdogRadio Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregfitzsimmons Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregfitzshow Official Website: http://gregfitzsimmons.com Tour Dates: https://bit.ly/GregFitzTour Merch: https://bit.ly/GregFitzMerch “Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons” Book: https://amzn.to/2Z2bB82 “Life on Stage” Comedy Special: https://bit.ly/GregFitzSpecial Listen to Greg Fitzsimmons: Fitzdog Radio: https://bit.ly/FitzdogRadio Sunday Papers: http://bit.ly/SundayPapersPod Childish: http://childishpod.com Watch more Greg Fitzsimmons: Latest Uploads: https://bit.ly/latestGregFitz Fitzdog Radio: https://bit.ly/radioGregFitz Sunday Papers: https://bit.ly/sundayGregFitz Stand Up Comedy: https://bit.ly/comedyGregFitz Popular Videos: https://bit.ly/popGregFitz About Greg Fitzsimmons: Mixing an incisive wit with scathing sarcasm, Greg Fitzsimmons is an accomplished stand-up, an Emmy Award winning writer, and a host on TV, radio and his own podcasts. Greg is host of the popular “FitzDog Radio” podcast (https://bit.ly/FitzdogRadio), as well as “Sunday Papers” with co-host Mike Gibbons (http://bit.ly/SundayPapersPod) and “Childish” with co-host Alison Rosen (http://childishpod.com). A regular with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel, Greg also frequents “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “Lights Out with David Spade,” and has made more than 50 visits to “The Howard Stern Show.” Howard gave Greg his own show on Sirius/XM which lasted more than 10 years. Greg’s one-hour standup special, “Life On Stage,” was named a Top 10 Comedy Release by LA Weekly. The special premiered on Comedy Central and is now available on Amazon Prime, as a DVD, or a download (https://bit.ly/GregFitzSpecial). Greg’s 2011 book, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons (https://amzn.to/2Z2bB82), climbed the best-seller charts and garnered outstanding reviews from NPR and Vanity Fair. Greg appeared in the Netflix series “Santa Clarita Diet,” the Emmy-winning FX series “Louie,” spent five years as a panelist on VH1’s “Best Week Ever,” was a reoccurring panelist on “Chelsea Lately,” and starred in two half-hour stand-up specials on Comedy Central. Greg wrote and appeared on the Judd Apatow HBO series “Crashing.” Writing credits include HBO’s “Lucky Louie,” “Cedric the Entertainer Presents,” “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher,” “The Man Show” and many others. On his mantle beside the four Daytime Emmys he won as a writer and producer on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” sit “The Jury Award for Best Comedian” from The HBO Comedy Arts Festival and a Cable Ace Award for hosting the MTV game show "Idiot Savants." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Fitzdog Radio. I'm in a different studio today because my other studio is under construction for a week. We'll be back in that studio next week. But this one, and Harlan Williams, which we're taping tomorrow, will be in this studio. What's it called? So we want to thank Bass Hole Podcast Studios here in Hollywood for their graciously having me in. this past week I had an experience I wanted to share with you just quickly and then we'll get into this Ben Glebe interview that we just did that was very fun so a friend of mine named Dave Hallanan I've lived in the same neighborhood for 25 years

and I've gotten to be very close to a bunch of guys and we play poker together and go to the beach volleyball on Sundays anyway one of us Dave Hallinand great guy with two young kids He's lived three doors down from us, was a camera guy. And he would finish a production. He'd be away for a few months and he'd come home. And the first thing he would always do is he would go take a solo hike somewhere,

kind of adventurous guy, and he would camp out. And it was his way of kind of clearing his head after working his ass off. So he went on a hike like that and went down a trail and he got to a little lagoon. and he stepped into it and it was very slippery and it fed into a waterfall and he went over the top and he didn't make it. So unbelievably tragic

really hard on everybody, obviously his wife and kids. So every year we go back to that trail and in his honor we walked the hike. So we did it. This year was the 10th anniversary. So there was about nine of us, and we headed up there in a couple cars, and we met at the trailhead. It was supposed to be 68 degrees.

It was 90 degrees. And one of our friends named Josh was wearing heavy jeans, wouldn't wear a hat, hadn't hydrated. We get about a mile up a steep hill. It's up in the sequoias. And there's a river running next to it that is the steepest river in North America. Did I already talk about this on the show? I can't remember if I did. He doesn't think so.

So anyway, we get a mile up the hill and Josh, our friend Josh, is collapsed on the ground. One guy is holding him up from behind. He's vomited all over himself. He's lost consciousness. He's trembling. and one of our guys, Matt, just immediately sprints. He runs down the hill to get help. There's no Wi-Fi service.

There's no cell service at all. Runs down the hill and he gets the park rangers and the paramedics and he comes running back up the hill a mile. It's 90 degrees out. He's got armfuls of water. His shirt is dripping. Red face. This guy's 62.

years old. And I should point out, like, I'm the youngest one out of this group. And I just turned 60. And one guy's 72. And so it was ill-advised that we even left on this hike. But more ill-advised to wear fucking jeans and not drink water. So the paramedic get up there and they put an IV, two IV drips in him. And he regains consciousness. Anyway, long story. Like, if it wasn't for Matt, I think Josh would have died. It was like that intense. And just to think that on the 10, and we had Dave's son Owen with us,

who's 26, and he wanted to come on this hike with us, and that we would have lost another guy in the group on the 10th anniversary on the same trail was kind of mind-blowing. So anyway, came down the hill. Everybody's fine. He's fine. and and when they there's a crazy thing where if you have sOS on your phone you can dial 911 and you can it tells you which direction to aim your phone to get satellite connection which one guy did but what it didn't realize is when you call 911 it transcribes the call and sends it to your emergency contact which this did so now uh his emergency

contact is his wife who gets this transcript and it says that Josh could be dying on the mountain. And she goes and tells Josh's wife and gets my wife and the three of them is sitting in their kitchen. All they know is he's dying on a mountain and they need help. And so they didn't hear for like an hour that everything was okay. So that was crazy. And so I don't know if the hike continues. Do we continue to honor him? Do we suck it up and just train more and be more prepared and maybe go during January instead of May? And I think maybe a shorter, maybe a shorter hike.

And I'm realizing like I can't do everything I used to do. I have on a back brace right now because I ran a 5K, a 5 fucking K. K made me have to go to the chiropractor and try to steal opiates from friends. Maybe that didn't have anything to do with the back back. But I, but I, I, it's over. It's over. Anyway, see me while I'm still alive. I'll be in Boston at the Laugh Boston Comedy Club, May 29th and 30th.

Rochester, New Hampshire at the Opera House, June 5th. A gunkwood, Maine at Jonathan's July 12th. Then I'll be in St. Pete's for the joke world. Festival, August 14, 15. Also coming to Cincinnati and Columbus at the Funny Bones, August 26th and 27th. Then I'll be in La Jolla. Check fitzdog.com. Get some tickets. Come out and say hello. And thank you also to my guest. And here he is now, Mr. Ben Glebe. Hey, Ben Glebe is my guest. Ben and I go back. I. I've known you. Were you ever in the New York scene?

Yeah, I mean, I'd go just to end up in New York. No, but you weren't. No, but you weren't located. So I guess I've known you since I've been out in L.A. So it's mostly since Chelsea Lately days. Yeah, Chelsea Lately. We used to come on as panelists. You did it, I think a hundred times. I probably did it. Take longer to come up with this number. I don't want to say 100. I would say 50. I probably did it 50 times. Okay. One of our big. Which means we made less than $50,000. Less than $25,000. For years of work.

The pay was awful. I don't think there was residuals. No, once in a blue for like some international buyout. Yeah, yeah. Extra $400 check or something. Yeah. Not a lot.

And you had to write your own material, perform it, get yourself there. Mm-hmm. Oh, fuck. I'm so sorry. The security company is calling me again. He, Ben Glebe, just so you know, I'll cover while you do this. Thank you so much.

Ben Glebe is, has, in his words, a staff. his staff at his house, which is mind-blowing because Ben Glebe is not that successful. He's a marginal character who somehow has a staff, which means either he's saving no money. He's taking everything he makes. I was off listening through that,

and you called me a marginal character. I'm pretty sure is what I heard. Well, I'm just trying to highlight that you having a staff feels like a lot. A lot of people said that to Moses and his staff. And look how he ended up. Dead in a desert, Greg. Alone and dead. The first Jewish joke of the podcast.

That's correct. Not even allowed into the promised land. That's me. Walk me through the cast. The cast. The staff? The staff? Yeah. We have like 27 people working on the show. It's insane. It's insane. All right. So we're bearing the lead. Ben is a very successful host

over the years. He's been nominated for two Emmys. It's not accurate, but I'll go with that. My game show was nominated. But I was not, but I'm associate, you know, I was the host of an Emmy nominated show. Well, there you go. That counts. You won an Emmy, so it's a little different.

Okay, your bio says one. No. Really? The bio that my publicist sent me as one has one. I grabbed it from 2004. Yeah. But they're daytime Emmys, so I don't count them as real Emmys. Four counts as one.

Four, if you meltdown four, you can make one. And then I actually won a Cable Ace Award for a game show that I hosted on them. Which was? It was on MTV. It was called Idiot Savants. Two seasons. And mine's a idiot test game shows. We were very similar. Yes. We're at game shows. Idiot game show hosts. Yeah.

But it's really like it doesn't mean anything, but it's nice to be nominated. It is. So, and you've also, and your show on the Game Show Network lasted a while. I mean, it's still on. It's on Pluto TV now. It's never left the air. It was on Game Show Network for four seasons, 210 episodes.

debuted two weeks before Chelsea lately ended. So that was nice timing. Then Netflix acquired it And it was the second game show ever on Netflix after Jeopardy And then now it's on Pluto TV And I see zero pennies for either of those acquisitions Well, off the air, we're going to talk about the game show network executives I love them

Now you don't On the air, I love them On the air No, I do love them They've been great to me Yeah They're not having me back on the air for many years since the show Ended doing new episodes, but I love them

Yeah They've been very nice to me Good I was the star of their network for years. I can't be upset about that. Did they pay you a lot of money? Yeah. My house was part.

My house is the house the idiots built, as I call it. So yeah, they, not the executive is the contestants. It must be nice because they keep trying to rob it. I mean, my own staff is robbing it. I know, during the damn thing. Wait, your house is big enough to hold 27 people? A house is big enough to hold 127 people. No.

Yeah. You haven't never, I've invited you to all my birthday parties. You have. I see unred tech, unresponded to texts. but I have 150 or 200 people in my house for parties. Really? Yeah, Nikki paid for the last party at my house. And Nikki Glazer.

Yeah. There's only one Nikki, really, in our world. Right? Yep. And then, yeah, we have like, I have like 300 people come to these parties. There's Nikki. Oh, no, there's another Glazer. Ilana Glazer.

Ilana Glazer, but there's only one Nikki. Yeah, but Eliza Schlesinger is another one. We're just talking by female comics now. I guess so. Judy Gold. Judy Gold, yep. The sideburns. So what part of town is it in?

It's in the valley. How much did you pay for it? Back when I bought it, $645,000. Get out of here. Now it's like a $1.3 million house at least. Amazing. My late dad gave me the advice to buy that house. We found in the newspaper.

I saw this huge bay window overlooking a huge pool. I was like, this might be the place. Your dad was late, what, seeing the house when you were looking at it? My dad is no longer alive. Oh, I thought you meant by that. No, my late dad. Your late dad. Was he often not on time?

Was he often not on time? Wouldn't that be ironic? It would. If your father died and he was always late? It was the opposite, actually. He was always on time and like, look what life did. It didn't even pay him back. Why, now he's late?

No, he was. But I just now... Oh, you mean he's being his moniker is now late? Always on time and now he's known as late. Right, right, right. It's like all that time putting in and being on the clock and then that's why I'm always late. I'm going to live forever.

Yeah. Yeah. My father was always early. He was one of those. guys like on time is late. My dad was just right on time, I'd like to say mostly. What did he do? He was a real estate broker, property manager, and then in his later years before retirement was a luggage salesman and rug salesman. Really? Yeah. So did he ever buy real estate along the way? A little bit. It was more his father, my grandfather, like, would buy the properties and my dad would

manage them. But my dad had a piece in one or two of them. So then your dad inherited the property from his dad. Yeah, I don't even think that's the case. I think the business was liquidated and then, you know, maybe there was a little bit of inheritance, but not too much. Is your mom still around? Mm-hmm. Yeah, she's the best.

She's on time, baby. She's very early, actually always. Early mom. Yep. So what does she do with her time now? She's retired, I assume? She's retired. She lives nine minutes away from me in a beautiful apartment complex we found for her,

and she swims every day and she goes to a book club I found for her and a discussion group weekly. and another thing. Gotta keep the mind going at that age. Keep the mind going. Yeah, but she does stay home and watch a lot of TV too and sit on the chair, so I'm trying to convert her.

Is it a retirement community? No, it's just like a beautiful building. She has like a great young neighbor across the street in her 40s that comes over for coffee. Nice. Yeah. It's lovely. I love that. It's really good that she has neighbors like that

because I don't make the time to see her, so somebody has to do it. You can't do it. I don't have time for that. I've got 27 people on staff. And of course, I'm joking. I love my mom. Someone should see her all the time.

You should hire her to be the 28th person. Because then she could come in your house. Yeah, she could cook for me, like, officially. Is she a good cook? Amazing. Jewish? Yeah. Israeli.

No. Yeah. How was she feeling about everything's going on in Israel right now? I mean, it's just a shit show in every way possible. We have family there, too. Is she anti-Palestinian? Deeply. I'm kidding.

No, not at all. We're very, we're humanists, man. Yeah. We want everybody to be free and treated equally and want the hatred to stop. And so as soon as the hatred stops, we can maybe have a chance of, peace over there. Right. It's a tragic war on both sides, very messed up. It's very hard because I grew up in New York. My wife's Jewish. And so growing up in New York, you know, we got the New York Times delivered every day. And I mean, growing up in the 70s, you know, Israel was in the news

every fucking day. Yeah. And I remember reading that book by Leon Yeris about the foundations of Exodus. Exodus. And I still feel like I am so short of, there's such a knowledge deficit for me and so I don't weigh in heavily on this stuff and then I see people now

that are new to the game. You know nothing about. And still don't. And they're they are so passionate one way or the other. You know, Alison Rosen is very pro-Israel in the war,

very outspoken about it. And we don't talk about it because when people are that strong-willed about it, I'm either going to have to go along with them 100% or feel like I don't have the information to counter what they're saying. Sure. So I just leave it alone. Sure.

And I think... You don't read a lot or what is it? I do read. Well, I do read a lot. But, you know, it's like, it's really a lot because what era are we talking about? You know, are we talking about like you to fucking Moses? Are we talking about the Jews that have been pushed around the world forever? All of it, I think.

But I also think it also most important is like the modern era. And like people try to use a lot of past stuff. And it's like, okay. But like, you know, my only thought on that is like the Native Americans were treated pretty horribly in America and kicked off their land. And I think that's much more black and white than like an Israel. Like the Jews were there for a very long time. Obviously, biblical times even back then. And then we're pushed out and left and came back.

But ignoring all that, let's say it was just the same. as Native Americans in America, they were literally just undisputably, indisputably as well, kicked off the land, and like they're not still launching rockets into mainland U.S. outside the reservations and still,

at some point you have to just say history has changed, the geography has changed, and let's make peace now and not forever try to keep relitigating and try to keep killing to get land back that is now long gone and is not coming back. So I think,

I certainly did not plan to talk about this real Palestine in this podcast, But I think my opinion is like this war has been brutal. Israel's been like, you know, very aggressive and it's been very, very tragic. But also it is in response to like the worst attack since the Holocaust of Jews. And it's still still to this day if you ask a lot of Palestinians, if you want your own state, can you now acknowledge Israel's right to exist and have their own state? Because they're the ones that have to give you your state.

And you can't possibly ask for a state from people who you don't acknowledge one to? And they still won't say it. They'll still say, no, there's no way we need our original land back. And it's like, then you'll just never have peace because Israel obviously isn't going anywhere. It's a major nation. Is the third state solution still even a possibility now? Like an upstate for the Palestinians? Yeah.

It is if Hamas can be taken out of power. And it is if the Palestinian people can make peace with the fact that Israel isn't going anywhere and that the only path to peace. And it's not like it's theoretical. a lot of Israel's former foes are now their allies. Egypt was obviously quite at odds in many wars with Israel. They made a peace agreement,

and they are complete buddies and have peace. No, Egypt. Oh, Egypt. But also the Saudis are normalizing as well. They're normally as, yeah, as well. And Jordan, you know, has also has peace agreements, generally speaking with Israel. So it's not like there's not precedent.

It's like you make a peace agreement, you make peace with it. God, there's so many moving parts. And then you see our country's response to it all is with a sledgehammer. There's no finesse. There's no layered response. And it's always been somebody described the Middle East politics to me once as it's like a mobile. There's pieces dangling at different angles. Nothing looks even.

But if you pull one piece out, the whole thing will collapse. And there's literally children in control of it just batting it around. I'm from under. Just like fucking with it. Like world leaders that are just not even mature human beings. Yeah, yeah. So the mobile analogy is apt. But also just, you know, I had not thought about it.

I don't remember it. Oh, I do. I do remember it. Which is, you know, another interesting story about it. I think also is just what certainly doesn't work is religious fanaticism. Yeah. You cannot negotiate with that. And the example of it is my uncle, Shmulik.

Smulik? Shmulik. I know. It's not the world's most attractive. Shmulik Lieberman? Shmulik Brenner. Yeah. My mom's brother-in-law

was one of the high-up environmental ministers in the Israeli government during the Oslo Accords. Wow. And he said to the prime minister had a proposal, so the prime minister

put him in charge of negotiating the environmental and water pact with the Palestinian delegation during the Oslo courts. And they sit down on the first day of the negotiations and the Palestinian delegation says to my uncle's team,

we will agree to nothing but 100% of what our demands are because Allah decrees that we get this. And my uncle said, oh, that's good to know. I certainly am not going to argue with God. So we can't negotiate. So negotiations are over. And they walked away from the table. Three days later, the Palestinians came back and said,

okay, we're willing to negotiate. We talk to God. Yeah, we talk to God. misunderstanding. Yeah, so they sat back down. My uncle said, I'm so glad that God changed his mind. And they made an agreement, and it stands to this day for sharing water and environmental stuff. I'd follow up question to this.

Do you think you will have more access to Pussy hosting this new show? And are you grooming in a different way based on that? Well, before I answer that, can I just share a quick recap of what happened here? I don't think you've told people what the show is. We started, we talked about a staff. My alarm went off, and then we talked about your Emmys and then the Middle East War. and I don't think people know what the show is. Are you critiquing the flow of my podcast?

Yeah, I mean, if you like it, that way, I'm just saying you're asking, do I have access, new access to pussy, new level, and I don't know, the people don't know what they're talking about. I have ADHD. I have ADHD, too. I scribble down a few things, but I try to be in the moment.

I try to honor the truth of the moment. And the flow of the moment was, I was looking at your hair, and I was so fucking jealous that at this age you have, has there been any, Propecia, implants. No. And in fact, my hair went, started to go gray years ago, and it reversed itself.

This is just natural black hair. I'm 47 years old. Almost 48. It's great. Thank you. I remember you and I once Banderle. At least what made me feel really close to you over hair before at Chelsea Lately one day because I guess you liked that I always had like the right amount of stubble. Yeah. And you asked me for how do I keep my stubble? I said, let's talk after the episode. And we met in my dressing room. And I told you my grooming techniques. You have great stubble now for like decades since. Not bad.

Not bad at all. Except mine is gray. Mine's starting to get gray in the stubble too. Yeah, no, it's not bad. It's not bad. Are you single? No. So I'm grooming nothing.

Married? No, I have an incredible new girlfriend for the last six months and it's love of my life. She's moving in with me literally this Saturday and my show debuts this and the Thursday after a few days after this mysterious show. She knows what she's doing. Yeah, locking it in right before. I would wait. I always wait for the first quarter results on the ratings before moving in. Oh, I thought you were going to say on the other side, I should wait.

But you're saying she should judge and hold off. I get it. Hurtful. How old is she? 40. And you're how old, 47? Turning 48 in a month. That sounds very appropriate.

Thanks. Well, they say, my age appropriate one in years. I was dating a lot younger women. What's the youngest? And I hated it. My girlfriend, I hear this way. I hated dating younger women. Why would you want that?

the youngest that you dated? When I turned 40 or 39-ish, my girlfriend was 25. So that's the different, it's an age there, 14 years. Are you single? No, you're married for 26 years. Okay, so you're about ready to venture out. But she's 25 years old, right? Wow.

Yeah. Interesting. Even dating years is very young. Yeah. That's cool. Get them early, dude. Yeah. Lock it up.

She looks good. Her body looks good. I bet. finally hit adolescence. Yeah, I mean, it's weird when that hair grows in. You're like, who is this? Who are you anymore? You've changed.

Yeah. Why are you doing this? Yeah. To me. I know. I get that. I mean, I remember back on the island, it was just playing in the sandbox. Mm-hmm.

Let me ask you this. Please. Have you been married? No. I've been engaged. What's the longest you're with somebody? Four and a half years. Why do you think that is?

Are you saying that's long or not long? is not long. Well, compared to you who made choices early and never questioned it. Well, no, I have not questioned it. I really have not. Like, there has never been a day. And I'm being honest with you, I'm a guy that has a hard time with commitments career-wise. I mean, this podcast I've been doing for 16 years. But I have not one moment of my life question whether or not I wanted to break up with my wife. It's just the one great, perfect thing. Good for you. That's cool. But What do you think it is because you're a nice guy, you're dressed down, you're seemingly rational. I don't know what you're like when you lose your temper or whatever, but what do you think

it is that kept you from having a longer relationship in your life? I really think it's that I'm like pretty picky when it comes down to it and like something's, things seem great in the beginning. And then like most, not to put all the blame off myself, I'm sure I'm not easy to get along with because I'm so particular. But also I just think most people are really bad at communication. a lot of women I've dated are not committed to like seeing a conversation

or conflict through to the end and so they they just bail out of a conversation I get nuts, I get pissed off, I'm like how can you like end this conversation we're about to oh when I finally made the point that you can't respond to now the conversation needs to be tabled till tomorrow. It sounds like it was a debate strategy

with you and them though. Do you feel like maybe you were too cerebral about how you interacted with them? Yeah and probably too like intense about it like you need to be able to also let people communicate in their style a bit, and that hasn't been my strong suit historically. So I think it's that.

And I also think I've talked to my girl about this. I've also, for whatever reason, I had some sort of an insecurity, I think, where it came to who I would be choosing as partners, like all respect to my past partners, but sometimes they just like, assuming they're not going to listen to this, or even if they do whatever, it's over. I just think I wasn't choosing people at my level,

wasn't choosing people that would, like, elevate me. was choosing people that I felt like were safe and, like, would feel almost like real happy or lucky to be with me. And so, like, in my mind, there wasn't as much of a chance they would leave at some point. Were looks a distraction?

Do you feel like maybe you lean too much on the looks? Maybe, except my current girlfriend is stunning beyond belief. So... Pictures? Yep. 100%. Has she ever sent you nude photos? I wouldn't say she'd send me full...

Oh, yeah. Yes, I think so. Let's pull those up. I got a whole album here. You can look at it. Just don't show it to the camera, though, okay? I'm not going to show you the nudes, obviously, but here is, and make sure there's nothing too crazy in here, yeah.

There you go. With the body in it would be good. Well, first I'll just show you the last one, which is the body that she just posted publicly on her Instagram, so we can... My God. I know. And then I'll take you to the top of the album, and you can produce. Is that like a 34B cup?

I don't know the answer to that, but she's one of the most stunning human beings in the world. She's the one in the middle? Yeah. Wouldn't matter. Look at this. I know. And she's one of the most intelligent, amazing, accomplished, caring, funny. She looks like she has a little Middle Eastern in her.

No, she's Indian. Is that the Middle East? I don't think so. And she's from Barbados. So she has this like island accent. This like British-y island accent. Oh my God. She has her own PR firm, which is like next level.

She has her own PR firm. Called Shift Media that represent Louis Vuitton and F1. Oh, so she works hard. She works very. We have our startups together. My show that remains to be. named and her PR company which has been named. I've plugged her more than

myself and and- I bet you have plugged her. You're damn right. And we just work all day together and like on our own businesses. But is it tough like if you guys want to go out to dinner is one of you like on call and then dinner gets interrupted? We'll push it from 8 to 8 to 30 to 9 to 915

we're walking in with the last people in the restaurant but then we decompressed for the meal and we have a nice day. What about making love? Does that happen at the end of the night or do you guys have to slot it in during the day? End of the night I would say oftentimes and then like occasionally you know it's the top of the day but when you say oftentimes

I mean we're both having a very healthy without revealing too much a very healthy life between us but now that I as you say apropos accurately I don't know the word but I have a staff the last few weeks since we opened it's been a lot harder to sneak away since there's a lot of people

in the house I know I made my home my office and my studio and so oh my god what a mistake I know but it's But that's a lot of money. Yeah, I know, but that's because you're just starting. Once the show's up and running, you're going to get some production offices. After two seasons. But the studio's in my house as well.

What's the budget on the show? So it's the first late night show for YouTube. I'll just say that for now. It's called Goodnight with Ben Glebe. Let's talk about that. Now, let me set it up properly. Sure. The show is called Good Night with Ben Glebe, G-I-B.

And it's YouTube's first ever late-night show. And it's on the Ben-Glebe Good Night YouTube channel. Yeah, at Good Night on YouTube. Which has 2.9 million subscribers. is that possible? The show just started. How does it have so many? Correct, because I partnered with my friends, the McFadden brothers, the co-ceeos of collab, we've been making viral

videos together for like decades, literally. And they built up these channels for comedy videos. So we collabed together, and they gave me this channel, and we have working together to launch it and rebrand the channel. I mean, if you got 2.9 million views, that would dwarf all the other late night shows. They get less than a million each.

I know, we're trying to reawaken the channel. So right now we don't have any way. near that. We're also having debuted yet. We're just releasing little teaser videos and stuff. So we're hoping to reignite that audience really soon. So there's that. It's really exciting. And we have a world-class team. Because they're all going away. I mean, Colbert's gone. Kimmel's not going to be around much longer. Our show starts one week after Colbert leaves the air. We drop our first episode on YouTube at 10 Eastern on the 28th, Thursday, the 28th. And Colbert's gone this Thursday, I think. Who's going to be the final guest on his show? I don't know the

answer to that. Probably John Stewart will appear, I bet you. Maybe. Yeah, that would make sense. That would make sense. And then probably all the host just came on, so they won't come back on. I saw that episode. And I got to tell you something. You know, it's, it's just five, five white guys within five years age of each other. Right. They've all got on dark blue suits with white shirts and dark ties. Right. Their hairstyle is all exactly the same. Yeah. They're all married with kids, straight. Right. And you just go, this is why late night is over.

Yeah, that's why I'm creating one as a straight white male who's not far in age from them. And your hair is exactly the same as theirs. But you have a purple jacket. I have like a maroon jacket. That's the key to your show. I call maroon fly, you know what I mean? And you're Jewish. None of them are Jewish.

John Stewart. He wasn't even one of those five. He wasn't one of those five. I don't even know why they have John Oliver in that group. He's not a late night host either. Confusing. All the rest are late night host. and you have John Oliver

which does very very strident angry news rants once a week. Do you not like his show? I used to like it. I don't really like it very much anymore to be honest. I do still watch the first like seven minutes.

Yeah. And I've never gotten through his 25 minute rant about charter schools. Today, Charles's schools. I don't give a fuck about charter schools for a three-minute segment, let alone 25 minutes about them. Like, that's the one problem

with themed episodes. Like, almost never are you going to strike on a topic that I'm interested on your whim to dive in for 25 minutes on one topic. People have short attention spans now. Yeah, I can't do it. I just, it's always something, it's like,

I get your staff did a lot of research about why local prisons have the most corrupt number of people running. I don't, I get, I'm sure it's true. I see what you're doing. You're jumping into late night and you're taking on the big dog, the guy that wins all the Emmys, thrown down the gauntlet now, start the war. Yeah. Get some press. Also, I'll respect.

He's funny, but like, why does he open every episode like a baby in a, in a high chair getting his mash coming. He goes, welcome, welcome, just banging his hands on the table like a petul and child. I love a lot of respect. I love John Oliver, but like Conan O'Brien, I respect the material more than the delivery. Like Conan O'Brien, I think is brilliant, but I cannot sit through the fidgety nervousness. It makes me uncomfortable, and it's not why I'm watching TV late at night. Right, and also, like, again, I don't know why I am starting this war,

but John Oliver, but also I just figured out the formula of his writer's style on that show and it's almost entirely always just like really strident very like overwoke points that just have little side jokes with a side

character that he makes up to make the joke so he's like and it's ridiculous that you're doing this it's like the guy in class that's always like trying to say all right Johnny we get it Johnny yeah yeah yeah yeah who's this fake guy you're talking to on the side although I think to his credit I think he was the first one to say, you know, and here's Donald Trump, the original chef boy or D with the blah, blah, blah.

Yeah. Now everybody does that device. Yeah, true. I got him credit for that. That was a good little, I like that little recipe for a joke. Yeah. When you touch Trump in the stomach, though, he goes, hoo-hoo, and then just bombs people. I don't know why those two are correlated, but he does that.

But I said Chef Boydia and you went with the Pillsbury Do Boy. Right. Yes, it is. But that's what's going to make your show different. Yeah, we just like mix metaphors. Yes. Like no one in late-night does it. Because I see your list of guests.

First of all, an unbelievable star power. You got the Black Eye P's Keith Harris as the band leader. Yep. Music director. Yep. Nikki Glazer and Scott Galloway are backers. Does that mean financially? Yeah. I've raised the whole money for this show

How much did you raise? $1.5 million. My God. How much did Nikki give? Can't say. Bob Odenkirk will be on. Yep. Tiffany Haddish, Craig Robinson.

Sophia Bush, who's that? Big, very big actress. One Tree Hill, huge podcast last few years. Jeff Ross, how'd you get him? Very hard to get Jeff, but he's a dear friend of both of us. Adam Ray? What character will Adam come on as? I hope he comes on.

as Dr. Phil or as the gay mentalist or as the kid with acne or as Adam Ray? One of them. Aisha Tyler? What's she been up to lately? Directing a lot of stuff. No kidding. For years. So talented. So good.

Andrew Huberman's coming on. It's not even listed there or really announced some breaking news for you here. He's good. I can watch him. That's one of the main... I like Kim, but the internet is overrun. with guys that are absolutely positively, definitively giving you the truth. There's no room for debate. There's no alternate take.

This is how it is. And they're so eloquent that you go, yep, okay. Yeah, I mean, that's the way I guess you build a following is by having the answers, not by being uncertain. Maybe that's what our problem is. We're too nuanced, Craig. Well, we're curious. I mean, look at all the questions I've asked you.

I know. I would be asking you questions, too. If it was your show. Correct. Are you inviting me on your show? Yep. I would love to have you on the show. I would love to have you on the show.

I think you would have you on the show. No, we're going to have you on the show. Your voice just went up like an audience. Well, we're going to have you on the show. What character should I play when I come on? I'd love you to play Dr. Phil if you can. Could you be Adam Ray as Dr. Phil? I could be a Boston cab driver.

Yeah, that'd be great. Okay. That'll be our running thing. Oh, good, okay. That actually would be kind of funny. I love that, actually. You're going to have... Are you going to do like a letterman thing where you get like...

Remember he had Chris Elliott coming on as a man who lived under the stairs? Have you thought about getting like little characters like that? Yeah, we thought about it. It's not going to be our first move because we're trying not to like do like sticky characters. Uh-huh. We're going to be doing in-person stuff, interviews, trying to reinvent the game by like bringing value to people's lives with our bookings instead of a job. us being celebrity culture, late nights usually been. So we're going to book celebrities on each episode and also like a thought leader,

change maker, entrepreneur, expert, biohacker, relationship expert, wellness expert. So late night show that's funny but has a heart. Totally. Try to really help people's lives. And also it's much richer for me to make comedy out of instead of like just joking with like Chris Hemsworth for the thousandth time. Like is the hammer still heavy on the Thor films? Now I get to talk about like relationships and biohacking and exercise.

You know what I mean? Like there's so much more to make fun of it. I like that. Are you going to have like a space where people are going to do demonstrations and learn things? I don't know about demonstrating. We're talking about some science guy, but like, maybe we do have a stage where we can do that. But then the other unique thing, so we're going to also be doing like pre-tapes, but more like hidden cameras and man on the street things rather than sketches.

Too often we will do sketches occasionally. But then also another twist, it's the first ever late night show where the audience is really truly part of the show. it's the first worldwide studio audience ever. So we have huge video walls in the studio, like 20 feet of video walls. People can buy a ticket to be, one of our revenue streams, to be on the walls with us,

camera on, mic on, laughing, applauding, interacting with me and crowd segments. Well, that's like when during the pandemic, I remember I did one of your shows where there was a virtual audience. Yeah, nowhere comedy is powering, now it's NoWR Studios, it's powering the virtual audience for this show.

So my other company's doing that. And. But then you'll also have, a live studio audience. But that's just curated friends and guests. Oh. Because it's in my home. So I don't want like the public.

It's in your home? We built this incredible late night studio in my home. So it's just 20 seats in the studio. And then another 20 to 30 overflow in our overflow living room area. And then when the second the episode ends, the post show is all around the house. So I invite the audience to stay with us. If you buy a virtual ticket, you can be on the walls. If you buy a VIP virtual ticket.

And this is drinking. There's alcohol. Exactly. And you can be seeing. live the post show. Do you think people will on occasion make love in like a guest room? Yeah, 100%.

I'm probably already happened last night in our first test episode. No, no, I'm showing you the studio. This is the studio, but even before we finish the build, but this is our late night studio, essentially what it looks like. I wish your goddamn girlfriend's cleavage was in the studio. We can flip back to that album if you need to.

That looks amazing. I love that. And so when the show ends, the camera follows me into the rest of the house and it becomes this like playboy after dark, dive deeper with our guests, cocktails, joints. Last night in our test episode, we all were just to give you an example, right? We just had a test up, and we had great guests just to help us test the show. It was Jay Washington and Nick Alexander, a prominent neuroscientist, friend of mine, Dr.

David Rock. And then just in the audience of our 19 seats was Emily Morris. Sex with Emily, right? Yeah, sex with Emily. Literally teaches the master's class. She's flirted with me once. Yeah, she's one of the hottest. She does indeed.

And so then we... And great feet. She's hot in every way. And we, I don't know if I've seen her feet, but we flow through the whole rest of the house and then it's this vibe. It's this vibe in the ashram. So last night, post show, we're smoking a joint in the ashram with Emily and she's holding court talking about people's kinks and the craziest things she's heard from her clients.

And that literally was just even in our test. So I think the post show will even be more unique than the main show. And anybody in the world listening to this can get a ticket to see that live and to be on our walls at Make It A Good Night.com. You just buy a ticket and you're on. Do you have a writing staff for the show? Yeah, we got a writing staff. We got people contributing.

So part of the way I'm trying to do it cost efficiently is I don't have a lot of full-time writers. Right. But I have an amazing young writer graduate from Harvard. Caroline Choi is amazing. We're going to be getting contributions from people like Jay Chris Newberg. Mike Lawrence is contributing as one of the great. Mike Lawrence, one of the greats. He just wrote on this, he just wrote on this roast of Kevin.

What did you think of the roast of Kevin Hart? I thought it was really interesting. I thought the roasts are maybe getting a little too, like, formulaically just, like, say the worst thing possible. And clearly people don't really know each other anymore. Right. Trying to be, like, racist and hurtful without, like, great jokes behind them. Yeah. But I thought it was, I think it's fun that we have a place.

We can just be nuts. Like, back in Chelsea lately days, we could say anything. It was like a roast every night. Yeah. And you could, like, actually actively sexually harass and make racist jokes. Oh, nice. I've been talking to Annie on the phone all the time lately. Hey, Annie, I'm doing my podcast with, hold on, I'm doing my podcast with Ben Glebe.

He's sitting right here. Well, we talked about Israel, and I really just had to sit back and fucking listen to that junk. You brought it up. Greg brought it up, Annie. I'm going to listen to Candice Owens. You're a big Candice Owens fan. The more anti-Semitic and Nazi like she gets, the more you buy in. Yeah.

That's not her main wheelhouse, just for the record. Do you believe that Ben's got a new show? Good Night with Ben Gleap. Do you believe Annie Letterman will be invited to be a guest on the show? Andy already is. I know. I haven't been invited. Andy is one of our guests that we already cleared before.

This is last night, Emily, and our ashram Holt and Court. He did this kind of half-ass guilt invite once we were already on the podcast. No, my voice got high and nervous, but we're going to have Greg on. Yeah. Maybe Annie and I can be on the same episode. I would love that. Hanukkah gelt. You felt a fish.

That's correct. Annie and I've become extra close lately. We talk on the phone like once a week. Amazing. Yeah, this is recorded. Obviously, our conversations are full of hate. All right, Annie, I got to go. I love you guys.

I love you, too. Bye. Yeah, Annie will be a good guest. It's very hot in here. I take his jacket off. It is hot. It was actually to, can you turn the AC up? When I came in, it was freezing, and I asked him to turn the AC down.

I didn't realize you're going to show up in a rayon. I mean, you're wearing a sweater, a sweatshirt. Yeah, but because I've got a back brace on and I'm trying to hide it. Your back's hurting. Well, I did a thing where I ran a 5K when I don't run, so I didn't train. I just ran it. And then I was doing preacher curls, you know what preacher curls are? Sure.

And that really affects the lower back on top of it. And so I don't know what they are, but I just wanted to say yes, because I didn't want you to have to describe what a curl is. It's just a bench you put your armpits on and then you curl. I like those. My arms look good on those. Yeah, they do. Your arms in the mirror. It looks insane. Your arms don't really look like that.

I know. I know. I hold it up there. I'm like, God, I finally looked like this. I know. It's like when you put a balloon under your balls. Sorry?

Just a small balloon. Oh, just this little balloon. Just props things up a little bit. Oh, like a helium-filled balloon? Yes. You're sitting on it. It's just the right amount of pressure that it feels good, but you're not popping it.

Well, once you pop it, then it drops. But then now it's fluffed. Oh, it stays fluffed. Yeah. That's nice. Does the pop? He has a good size penis, guy like you? Doing pretty good down there.

Really? Yeah. You smiled when you said that. So I believe it's true. Thank you. Do you have a good one? I actually have a very large one. Oh, good to know that.

It's kind of infamous in the industry. Really? I can't believe you never heard that. No, I never heard that. Yeah. Milton Burl obviously had the most legendary. And it's a funny thing one time. I don't know how funny it is, but, you know,

Gloria Alred the famous women's rights attorney. No, but one time she said. sat down at my booth at the DNC. I was covering the DNC for NPR and she sits down on my boots to like rest and somehow we get to talking about she's like, oh, you're a comedian, Milton Burrell used to make me sit on it or tell

me to sit on his lap and like flirt with me and whispered my ear and say the things that and she's like always sues people for discrimination and like sexual harassment. She's like and she'd whisper all the things he wanted to do to me why didn't let him get away with that again? Oh yeah, yeah, because I didn't work for him. Literally she was trying to remember

why she didn't sue him for that. That's good. I never saw his penis, but I was a member of the Friars Club in New York. Oh, it's the L.A. club for me. And that steam room was famous. All those old Borsch Belt comedians. Were you looking at all the dicks to try to see it? You can't not?

They would like... You ever see Dangerfield's dick? How was his? No, I didn't see Dangerfields. I did see Henny Youngmans. Oh, interesting. And, I mean, look at that age... Take my cock, please.

Yes. That's the way he would ask people. He, instead of the violin, he used to play his cock in the steam room. That's right. And, you know, at that age, everybody... How was any young men? Well, everybody's as big at that age because it's just drooping. Well, you don't count the balls in the size of a dick.

I think it's a race between the balls and the tip of which gets lower. The tip starts drooping? I don't think that's real. Oh, you don't think a penis gets lower? That means it gets longer, obviously. Okay, please. No. Why to crush my dreams?

Crush a young man's dreams. So you debated Charlie Kirk. I did. And kind of famously. brought up an aborted fetus, and you showed a picture of a dolphin fetus. I said, do you truly believe this is a human being? He goes, yes, I go,

he goes, without a doubt. I go, without a doubt? Give him an out. And he goes, yes. And I go, that's a dolphin fetus, Charlie. And it's gone viral like 100 times. And what did he say? He just was, like, caught completely off guard. Got caught right in his throat. He looked at the camera. He's like, is this thing

recording? Yeah, yeah. It was like, it's one of the great memes. One of the great owns, I think. Congratulations on that. I mean, I felt better about it up to like eight months ago, you know. Did he get you any gotcha moments that he got you on? Nope.

I mean, we debated for an hour and 20. And after he passed, you know, very sad what happened to him, somebody made like a super cut of like, because that's the famous one, but like I owned him like 20 times in that debate. Somebody made like a super cut of the 20 times I own him in that debate. And he did not own me once even for a second. and I actually got him to storm off his own set at the end because I kind of called him out for having jinned up January 6th

and he did not like that and he stormed off. He like helped kind of encourage that insurrection to a degree to my mind. What do you think now about Trump giving $1.7 billion to the insurrectionists? Oh, you are so out of the news cycle. I've been working around the clock. This is the most egregious abuse. of power, maybe in the history of United States, so much worse than Watergate or fucking Hunter Biden's laptop.

Trump has now taken $1.7 billion of taxpayers' money, and he has put together a five-person commission selected by him and can be replaced by him at any time. And their job is to allocate this money to people that have grievances against the government, mostly January 6th, right? Really? Yes. He is flip-flopped. I don't understand.

Like, if anything, like Trump, I guess he, I get it can be convincing. But how do his followers, like, follow along for all of the flip-flops on issues, like, egregiously? Like, first, it was encouraging people to do the insurrection. Then on that day, he's like, you have to stop. We love you, but you got to stop. And they leave. And then he said, they're horrible what they're going to do. We're going to prosecute them.

And they said, you're going to pardon them before it's term ended. And he was like, never, I'm not going to pardon them. Then he ends his term. He's like, records a song with them. Yeah. And then he's going to pardon them. Then he comes back in office, does pardon them. But then it's like, how do people go with all these?

Because his base is shrinking, but they're getting stronger. So he is cowtowing to this. The opposite of an old dick, which is getting larger but weaker. Interesting point. Yeah. It's true. It's like when you see an old guy driving like a Lamborghini and you're like, come on, man. Yeah, like you're doing it, but no one is really, like, blown away by this.

It's a better car, but the driver is weaker. Right. Yep. You ever take Blue Chew or any kind of, like, have you experimented with those pills? No. Never once. I don't believe you'll down in a way when you said that. Because in one, I did for one instance, but generally speaking, no, I have not.

Here's the why I said that. I was dating somebody where I was not getting turned. on a lot, so I thought about it. No. So you blame her. I don't want to blame her. She's lack of chemistry. Lack of chemistry. But my theory here, at least maybe

I'm sure people have like a straight up dysfunction where they need it, but if you're really attracted to somebody, it's not going to be an issue. And then you're like mildly attracted or not, so then maybe you need AIDS. But I'm sure with age, maybe that changes. I don't know. Are you a big blue chew guy? Do you say you need AIDS? Age.

Oh, I thought you said AIDS. No, I said AIDS. I said AIDS. Am I said AIDS. Am I a bluechie guy? Well, they sponsored my podcast for a while, Blue Chew? Because if you have AIDS, then really, nobody's getting off. That's true. Although these days, I mean, it's really like,

we have the cure, basically. Oh, I just heard a breakthrough the other day that they've, like, really got something. Really? Yeah. Well, that's another whole separate thing is, like, the news never gives us a day to celebrate. I know.

Like, it was always AIDS epidemic. AIDS is going to kill you. And then I saw commercials in the last year where they're like, there's now one pill that suppresses it to undetectable, levels in your body, and another thing that makes it, you can't transmit it, that those combined literally is a cure. And we never had the newsday being like, cure for AIDS.

We never got the positive newsday. Because USA doesn't exist any longer, those pills won't be going to the people that need them, which is in Africa, where AIDS is still rampant and parts of Asia. Yeah. So US aid leads to US AIDS. Exactly. That's what it is. Make that the clip for this week?

Can you mark those times? Clip it. People love a good AIDS visualization. You did a game show and famously, I keep saying famously as if like... I love this. You're framing me like I'm a big star. Give me a kiss, Larry, give me a kiss. I have a lock on my... Remember he made out with Larry King on the interview. Larry King interviewed me. He did not kiss me on the lips. I'm hoping for you and I today. Right now, right here.

You want to kiss on the lips? Not really. That I thought about it. I thought about it. Then I thought there's a lot of big table between us and... Yeah. I'd explain it to my girlfriend. Although, actually it would be good for me because it might give me leeway with female hosts. I just feel like ever since I said I had a huge cock, you've been like looking at me. Yeah, a little bit I'm like more interested.

Yeah. Yeah, I get that. You famously did a game show where you had four of your ex-girlfriends on competing against each other. Who were they? Any comedians? No, but a famous TV host is one of them. What's her name? Courtney Hanson.

You know her? She's the car girl. She was the host of Overhauling and all these car shows ride of your life now. She was... Tom Boy? I'm gonna brag.

No, not at all. She was one of FHM's 100 sexiest women in the world. She was on the cover of that while we were dating. Really? Real breasts or impressed? Real and like one of the most stunning human being

second only to my current girlfriend. Yeah. A gorgeous human being. And the other was my ex Rome, Apple, lovely human being, artist. The other was my ex,

Danielle Sepulveris, author and stand-in for Julian Omar Gilles. the good, good wife. And then the fourth, the fourth one on that show was my ex-girlfriend, Jasmine. Chelsea Handler? Who was, who was a park? Did you ever flirt with Chelsea Handler? Flirt, sure.

Did she flirt back? We became, like, really, really close friends in the last season of the show. Yeah. We would, like, spend whole weekends together. We would, like, sometimes sleep in bed together. Like, we were very close. But you never kissed her. Never kissed her, but.

Did she ever, and be honest about this? Did she ever grab your ass? No. I don't believe that's true I wish she had all the time Really? Yeah I mean she thought you were cute I don't know backstage She would not do that to me

No we would like being quite intimate quarter So she certainly had the chance to do it Yeah But um a very funny moment of that So there's only one time where I in fact did make a move on her I have the clip actually on my phone If you want me to pull it up for the punchline of this It's pretty funny

No let me put your phone down Great so only if it's hot pictures of my current girlfriend Do you want the phone out? Yes I get that So we were in Vegas I don't know if you were there on that trip, but she flew her whole staff, and I just asked if I could come.

I wasn't her staff, but she was headlining Vegas. She flew us on her jet to Vegas, just to party out weekend. Nice. And a great time, she headlines like Caesar's Palace or whatever. And then the last night,

it was just she and I and her suite at the end of the night, everybody had gone to sleep and was often just two of us alone in night, and we're playing some game, like, in close quarters at, like, her desk in the corner of the suite. I was like, let's try to remember everybody

we interacted with this weekend and make a list. So we're like a foot from each other. and I'm a little drunk and a little high, you know? And so for the first time, I actually felt this, like, a little bit of, like, sexual tension in my mind, at least. And I'm, like, an inch from her face.

So I just looked her and I go, we should make out. And I see her, like, think about it for a second. To my memory, there's, like, a moment where she was, like, turned out by me saying that, and it was like, ooh. And then she, like, shakes it off. She's like, no, no, I don't think we should.

She'll, for sure deny the attracted part in that moment, but the rest for sure happen. And she's, I don't think we should. I'm like, why not? It would be fun. And she goes, I just don't think we should. It'll mess up our friendship. And there's just no point.

I'm like, okay, fine. It's 3.30 in the morning. So I'm going to go to sleep now. I get up to leave. She goes, what, you're not going to spend the night? And I go, I'm not going to sleep with you in bed after you just rejected me. I'm very embarrassed. This is very uncomfortable.

She's like, come on, come on. We can watch that sexy movie you wanted to watch on the pay-per-view. And I'm like, I don't even have a toothbrush. She's like, use my toothbrush. Oh, my God. So I use her toothbrush. We get in bed, right? And she's like, stay up.

I'm like, I'm going to sleep, Chelsea. If you want, I was like pissed and like butt hurt. I'm like, if you want to massage me when I'm sleeping, you go ahead. I don't even know why I said that. I'm just like my point being like, I'm going to fucking sleep. And I go to sleep. I wake back up and I go, Chelsea, do me one favor. Can you please promise me that you're not going to tell anybody I asked you to make out with me?

Yeah. And she goes, that's not going to happen. And I go, fair. Can you at least promise me you won't mention it on the show? She goes, that's fair. I can do that. Wake up in the morning. We fly back on the jet.

the next day I'm not on Chelsea lately but I tune in to watch it opening monologue she goes I went to Vegas this weekend and brought my staff because I enjoy watching people make fools of themselves

like when Ben Glebe gets very high in edibles and says to me we should make out and when I tell Ben no he goes why Chelsea it'll be fun and I go well it won't be fun

for me because I don't want to fucking make out with you and then Ben says to me please promise me you won't tell anybody asked you to make out with me and I said that's not going to happen. And then he says to me, at least promise you won't mention it on the show.

And that was the opening monologue in the show. Wow. So, well, that's the thing about Chelsea. Is she really, I mean, Kathy Griffin and Joan Rivers

did the same thing, which was they were taking you behind the curtain. And they were telling about famous interactions. And I think probably burned friendships and relationships along the way. I think Kathy's worse at that. I think Chelsea's, has more discretion.

I think she would only do that for her staff or people that were on her show and it was kind of the agreement. Yeah. She wasn't like telling stories about like bigger celebrities that she was doing stuff with. I put Amy Schumer in that group too, I think.

Mm. Yeah. Kathy Griffin, though, is the worst. Like Chelsea took me to a party once at Jane Fonda's house for her 75th birthday. Yeah. And it was like this insane Illuminati party.

I'm sitting in a circle with Chelsea Eva Longoria is sitting next to me. Henny Marshall, Kathy Griffin, and Kathy literally says to the group, she's like, Barbara Strengthsand and Sean Penner here.

How do we get in? Do we go causes? Do we go political? How do we do it? I remember Chelsea got mad or something at that party because she promised she wouldn't say something about that party than she did.

Yeah. That party was nuts. That party was really nuts. I had a chance that party, I believe, in my heart of hearts, to hook up with Eva Longoria that party.

Who was the dream? I mean, the dream, one of the most beautiful women. Why do you think you had a chance? I'll tell you, you'll be the judge. And this story ends in a way that it's classic. And I'm sure you've had the same experience. Get ready.

It's picking up off the floor real quick. Yep. So I'm at the party, and I'm flirting all night with Sally Field. Oh, my God, the flying nun. She looked incredible. I mean, always had a crush on her. Yeah, remember, like, literally, I just wanted to have sex with Sally Field and then walk out of the bedroom to her son

with maybe with special needs standing outside the door and be like, son, yo, your mother really cares about your education. Forrest Gump. I remember when, and then he goes, uh-huh, uh-huh. Anyway, so Sallyfield looked good. She had this little skirt on heels and just looked amazing.

And I'm flirting with her. I won't put upstairs. Me and Sally Field are upstairs at the house. No one's even up there. And Chelsea walks up the stairs, sees me and Sally Field in top of the staircase and says to America's sweetheart Sally Field, be careful with this one.

He's a lady killer. made me feel pretty fucking good. But then, Sally Feel, I can tell us, like, about to maybe leave the party, I got to make a move soon. And right then, Even Longoria walks into the party, a little short, black leather dress and, like, a see-through shawl on top, and heels looked amazing. And even Longoria walks into the kitchen,

and I have, like, a choice to make. Do I go for maybe the easier bet, Sally Field? What a night. And what were you wearing? Were you wearing this face? I know. I know, dude. This face.

Yeah. Everybody must have been on drugs. I mean, I got a lot of people high. this party too. Okay. Smok pot with Quincy Jones this party. Anyway, point is, I got Lily Tomlin too high. Anyway, the point is, so I decide to, like, shoot for the stars and go for Evil Angoria, right? So I let

Sally Field just leaves the party. Later that night, Chelsea tells me I fucked up, and I quote, I happen to know Sally Field hasn't been fucked in a long time, and could have been a, so I've maybe fucked that up. So I go to the kitchen, and Eva Longoria across the kitchen sees me and, like, lights up. I never met her before.

Yeah. She waves in me, comes over, starts talking to me, so Clearly she's a Chelsea Lately fan and just knew me from the show. We end up sitting in that circle with all those people. And Eva's telling some story. And the story involves someone that touched her leg. And she puts her hand on my thigh and rubs my whole upper thigh. Really? So I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Like, I never even thought it's possible really. I'm like, obviously in my mind I wanted to. But I'm like, so I'm like, is Evelynongoria flirting with me? So I like gather all the courage I can. And I say, would you like to take a walk real quick? And she goes, sure, let's go for a walk. and even longer you and I start walking down this long outdoor veranda, like on the side of the house.

The second we're walking, like a breeze comes by and opens her see-through shawl and she says to me the following sentence, Ben, you're taking my clothes off already? And she said that. All of a sudden, I'm like, 100% she's flirting with me now. I mean, you don't say that if you're, like, fucking around. Maybe you do.

Maybe you're just making a joke. I don't know. But in my brain, I was like, my confidence just shot through the roof now. I'm like, now I'm going to make a move. My plan is we're going to go around the corner in private. I'm going to try to make out with her. Sure. And make a move.

Yeah. And we get to the corner and we're about to turn the corner. I swear to God, someone taps Eva on the shoulder and says, I'm so sorry to interrupt you too. But Eva, Barbara Streisand wants to talk to you. And I get cock blocked by Barbara Streisand. Like is always the case. Like the legendary cock block. Eva, even like an hour and a half later.

Did you think about following it up? I did follow it up. So an hour and a half later, Eva even excused herself from Barbara, came back over to me and said, I'm so sorry, Ben. I'd love to talk to you, but I'm still talking to Barbara. It goes back. And the night I'm sitting in a circle, Bill Mar, Jane Fonda, Eva Longoria, Chelsea and me. I'm real high.

At one point, I go sit in Chelsea's lap. And then I was like, I'm really high. And I'm like, damn, your leg's really toned. She goes, ew, are you hitting on me? Go sit back down right there, right now. And he humiliates me in front of all these people. And I'm like, Chelsea, I wasn't hitting on you. It was just like, I'm high and your leg felt tone.

I was just commenting. Yeah. And then Eva's about to get, I'm passing my weed pen around. We're all getting stoned. And Bill Maher's like, I don't think these weed pens work, to be honest with you,

but I'll hit it anyway. And Eva's about to get up and leave, and I have to ask for her number in front of these icons of the world. Right. I asked for her number, and she, like, goes, oh, Ben, you know I have a boyfriend, right?

No. And I go, oh, no, yeah, of course. I just meant for, like, lunch. I didn't know she had a boyfriend. Yeah. And so I'm like, she goes, oh, long, sure, he's my number. He gives me a number. I wait six days to call, try to play it real cool.

I call and they pick up and they see something to the effect of Longoria Productions. Oh, shit. It was even there. She's not in the office this summer. Yeah. And that was that. I'll tell you, my daughter has discovered desperate housewives. And so we've been on these binges.

It's so good. Yeah. It was such a good show. Terry Hatcher and Eva Longoria. Terry Hatcher is real. I mean, they all are. They're all really good. Great actors, great show.

It's just a great soap opera. Felicity Huffman. Felicity Hoffman is so fucking good. Yeah. Who's she married to? Is it Bill? Bill. Bill, William Hacy.

Yeah. Yeah, I like that couple. They look similar. All right, listen. Don't they? Yeah. I think so. Both have like red hues.

Red hues? Kind of like blondeish, reddish hair. like kind of have like the same jaw. Yeah, they were a little puffy face. A little puffy face. Similar to jaw. Like kind of like a triangular face. Best Cohen Brothers movie.

Fargo. You think? I think Raising Arizona, but Fargo is right there. Yeah. Yeah. I auditioned once for Cohen Brothers movie and I went very stoned and did not do well. Do you have a problem with pot? No.

You talk about it a lot. No, I did smoke a lot more before and I don't smoke as much anymore. I probably still talk about it a fair amount. I think it's just a fun drug and activates my creativity. but for a while I was making me, like, I thought it would make me really in the moment as an actor, and it did and really subtle, but also I just couldn't remember my lines,

I would go in and I was like fuck up a couple moments, you know? I got a friend who's been an actor for his whole life. He's probably 70, at least 70. And he got cast in something, and couldn't remember his lines for the first time. He realized his mind is starting to slip, and he can't act anymore. Jeez.

Did he get to finish the film? Did he get to finish the film? lines. Yeah. Couldn't finish. They fired him from it? Yeah. Damn, that sucks.

No, it was a series. Oh, no. Series. Well, I remember I went to some taping of maybe a king of queens a million years ago, and Jerry Stiller, who's so funny as a sitcom actor, but he just could not remember his lines. I remember that. He was kind of famous for that.

Yeah, I guess that's why he would improvise someone. Right. Ben Stiller did a great documentary about his parents. Oh, I didn't see it. Well, you know, Stellar and Merr, right? Yeah. And I had no idea how big they were. back in the day.

And she was the brains of the operation. Really? As funny as he is, it was all her. Penn Stiller is so funny. I love him. But not a good dad, admittedly. Is that right? In the documentary, he talks about how...

Oh, Jerry Stiller was a good dad. No, both. Oh, really? He got it from his father. I mean, look at his schedule. Look how many films Ben has done over the last 20 years while raising little kids, you know? Right, right. I never got that.

You know, I never understood that desire to put your work in front of your family. It doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, I mean, but I guess the way you justify it is that's the way you're providing for your family. No, that's bullshit. Oh. I've provided for my family and also had balance in my life. I mean, my parent, my, I'm not leaving my kids millions and millions of dollars. Right. I guess when you get to a certain level, it's like you don't want to like miss the flow of it.

Like you need to balance it. Right. I mean, look, I own my house. I bought my house for 700. It's worth $2.3 million right now. When did you buy it? What year? 25 years ago.

Wow, wow, nice. It's paid off. Nice. I got a lot in the bank in my retirement account. Do you get money out of the house? Are you able to do like a second mortgage or a reverse mortgage or a loan? No, need to. You just have that, like, sitting there as like net worth, but not in the bank, though.

And then I was in the Writers Guild. I've got a pretty big pension from the Writers Guild. That'll kick in in a couple years. Nice. Social security. What do I need? My kids are set. Yeah.

I mean, they're not going to, they'll inherit some money. but they'll get the house. They'll always have a place to live. Or they can sell it and have a lot of money. They keep it. Keep real estate. I don't know. No, you got to sell it.

When my dad passed, we had to sell my parents' house, and then we were each able to get a little bit of money to live. Did you get the money out of it? Yeah, a little bit. Otherwise, it just stays forever in the house. Did that help you buy the house as well? No, I'd already own the house for 10 years.

So what did you do with the money you inherited? I mean, it was not a huge trunk of money. My mom just gave a gift to my brother and I, each. $200,000? Less something. Oh, maybe in that neighborhood. A little bit less.

I think it was made more like 100, something that, 150. And it's already gone. I mean, it just went to like bills over the course of that next year and a half,

you know? Maybe there's a little bit of it in stocked a little bit. You don't have tour dates to plug because you're obviously doing this show. Yeah, but after the show airs, you're going to be touring.

You're going to be drawn like a fucking maniac. The show is specifically taping on Wednesdays, releasing Thursdays so I can tour Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And so we'll be back out

on the road for sure. And we'll take the show on the road too. But yeah, it's just every Thursday at 10 Eastern 7 Pacific on YouTube at Goodnight at Make It a Good Night is our socials on social media. And if you want to be on in the tapings, you can go to Make It a Goodnight.com and buy a ticket and be on the wall. Me? You're welcome. I'll give you a discount code. That's what I meant by being on the show, by the way. Oh, now I get it. All right. Well, listen, man, I'm very happy for you. I wish you all the best. It sounds like a great concept. You got good people behind you.

And, you know, I hope you can get to the point where you can move out of your own house and get your life back and get laid once in a while. That would be very nice. My God. I know. It's a shit show over there. Alarms going off. People coming at 9.30.

I don't wake up until 10.30. It's a real problem. Pets? Yeah, my little dog, Henry. He's very, barked all night. I'm on zero sleep. Thanks, Embark. Now my girlfriend's allergic to dog.

So he's been sleeping in bed with me for six years. And now he has to sleep out of the bedroom. Is that why he's barking? I think. Henry's got to hit the fucking pavement as far as I'm concerned. You've got to choose your girlfriend over your dog. He's out of the room. How old is he?

Eight. You got eight years left, man. Yep, I know. He's got to just make peace with the fact that he's not in that room. Kind of dog is he? A little terrier, 16-pound rescue puppy. And he barks a lot? Normally no, but the last two nights he hasn't stopped barking.

I had to literally, I'd never done it in my life. He had to be outside for the last three hours of the morning this morning so I could sleep a little bit. The pep and we kept in the backyard. You got to make some changes at home. Thank you guys for listening. Blen. That's to be your...

People keep saying Blin all the time. I have a whole bit about this on our premiere. Well, you know how they made like when it was... You know, they was combined like J-Lo and Ben Affleck, what they call it? Benefer. Benefer. But you, being a guy who's mostly alone, has to combine his own name. Yeah, that's right.

Blend. Yeah. I don't even know where you're getting. It's like your masturbation name. Correct. Yeah. That's how you know. It feels like somebody different when you call yourself something different.

Right. My dick is blend's dick. Do you ever shake hands with yourself after you masturbate to make it feel like there was somebody else in the room? No, I hug myself so I can feel a little bit held. I like it. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome.

Thanks for having me, Greg. Great to see you. Great to see you. We'll compare dicks on the way out. Okay. Thank you.